SC - blood from slaughter houses (was OT Vegetarian Vampires (was Absinthe))

[Michael Newton]

Actually, it has nothing to do with hairs, but rather with diseases and
infections. The U.S.D.A. regs. allow slaughter house to collect blood for
food purposes; however, each blood amount collected must be tagged and kept
separate until the rest of the carcass has passed inspection, in case of
abscesses, TB, anthrax, etc. Most large medium / high speed processing
plants find it cheaper labor-wise just to toss the stuff.
Beatrix of Tanet

> LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 5/12/00 7:16:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
troy at asan.com
> > writes:
> >
> > << Apparently it is difficult or impossible, using the standard
> >  slaughtering methods of the time and place, to keep the blood entirely
> >  free of hairs.  >>
> >
> > Interesting. I suppose a sieve is too expensive for the slaughter
houses?
> >
> > .Ras
> > (and people wonder why I think modern food distribution is the pits)